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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News. In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia.

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PEPPER Report: Target areas for rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

This will be either a patient control number (found at form locator 03a on the UB-04 claim form) or a medical record number (found at form locator 03b on the UB-04 claim form) for a traditional Medicare Part A Fee-for-Service patient who received services from July 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2021 (“from” or “through” dates on a paid claim).